Marital and Love Mysteries – Stories from the "Great Lawyer of the East"

Author: Jie Hui
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Publishing Date: 2005-08-01
Features: I believe after reading this book, readers will not only enjoy the wonderful and extraordinary love stories but also gain a deeper understanding of legal knowledge regarding the judgment of right and wrong in cases related to marriage, love, and family. This is indeed the essence of this book. The book also holds a deeper value orientation, which is the hope of the author and participants that this book can benefit the kindness of society, the beauty of the human heart, and the improvement of happiness indexes. – Zhu Dajian, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Xinmin Evening News
I love my work so much, and as a woman, like all of you, I am concerned about marriage and love issues. If you need my help, I will care about your matters as much as I care about my own. Although this will take a lot of my time, your happiness will increase my happiness, or rather, your happiness is my happiness. My website is www.fa995.cn, or you can tune your radio to AM792/FM89.9 to listen to the program "The Great Lawyer from the East" hosted by Jie Hui on Shanghai Eastern Radio. I am always here for you every day.
Marriage, love, and family are the most important aspects of life for a person and are closely related to everyone. They even affect the size of one's career achievements, the level of happiness, and even the ups and downs of emotions. The great poet Lu You wrote the famous poem "Hairpin Wind":
"Red-fleshed hands, yellow wine,
Spring colors fill the city walls with willows.
The east wind is fierce, joy is thin,
A lifetime of sorrow, years of separation,
Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!"
This poem has been widely recited by those who have suffered from love for thousands of years. The inspiration for the poem came when Lu You visited Shen Garden and coincidentally met his former wife, Tang Wan, and her husband, Zhao Shicheng. He recalled the past when his mother disliked Tang Wan, leading to their forced separation. Overwhelmed with emotions, he wrote the poem on the spot, which became famous and passed down through the ages.
Similarly, many have neglected national affairs and betrayed the greater good of their nation due to love. The story of King You of Zhou playing with the beacon fires to please his concubine, Bao Si, is utterly absurd. To win a smile from the beauty, he lit the beacon fires meant to signal enemy invasions, causing the loyal troops to mobilize only to find no enemies. The king's foolishness cost him his kingdom and his head. The price of that laugh was far too heavy.
Another example is Wu Sangui's "wrath for a beauty," where he led the Qing army into Shanhai Pass to reclaim Chen Yuanyuan, leaving a legacy of infamy. Love can also make people abandon wealth and status to live a simple life. Edward, the Prince of Wales, married an American divorcee and willingly gave up his throne. Love can also make people feel young again. Recently, the media widely reported the intergenerational love story between Yang Zhenning and Wan Fan. It is said that the respected Yang Zhenning joyfully declared that Wan Fan was a gift from God, bringing him back to youth.
The examples above are well-known cases, showing that marriage, love, and family are indeed closely related to everyone's career achievements, happiness levels, and emotional fluctuations. Moreover, the joys and sorrows, loves and hatreds, reconciliations, conflicts, child custody, property division, elderly care, and bloodline tracing in marriage, love, and family become eternal themes in literature and art when they intertwine.
Because of the vital role and function of marriage, love, and family in life, the Xinmin Evening News' "Market Street Stories" column and the Eastern Radio's "Great Lawyer from the East" program collaborated for the second time to launch the "Market Street Case" writing competition, focusing on the field of marriage, love, and family. The event quickly attracted the attention of readers and listeners.
Twenty carefully crafted and moving stories almost encapsulate the core concerns of readers and listeners in the field of marriage, love, and family. More significantly, these 20 stories, rich in content and depth, reflect the dramatic changes in urban society due to rapid economic development and social transformation in recent years. Reading these stories and the insightful analyses and debates by renowned lawyers and the host Jie Hui will allow you to discern the of changes in family, marriage, and love in our society since the implementation of the market economy.
You will find that since our society adopted the market economy, traditional marriage, love, and family have been infused with more legal elements, moving beyond being solely governed by ethics and morality. This is the practical implementation of Jiang Zemin's advocacy of "governing the country by law combined with governance by ethics." The judgment of right and wrong in marriage, love, and family now relies more on legal tools. On the other hand, disputes in this field and the judgments of who is right or wrong often result in financial compensation for the party that is reasonable and has suffered damages.
The key lies in how to apply the law and uphold public order and good morals to determine the right and wrong in these complex and ambiguous cases. How should these extraordinary love stories be judged according to the law? How should the injured and affected hearts be compensated and comforted both financially and morally? This is the essence of this book. I believe after reading this book, readers will not only enjoy the wonderful and extraordinary love stories but also gain a deeper understanding of legal knowledge regarding the judgment of right and wrong in cases related to marriage, love, and family.
However, this book also holds a deeper value orientation, which is the hope of the author and participants that this book can benefit the kindness of society, the beauty of the human heart, and the improvement of happiness indexes. To put it further, if you can better handle the family, marriage, and love issues you face, you will achieve higher success in your career, often remain in a positive and high-spirited state of mind, and thus lead a happy, meaningful, and valuable life with a very high happiness index.